Jay Cooke's gamble : the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
"In 1869 Jay Cooke, the country's leading banker, was revered as "the Financier of the Civil War" and was, at age 48, bored with just making money. After being rejected as secretary of the treasury, the brilliant but idiosyncratic Cooke again decided to do something challenging: finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle." "M. John Lubetkin tells how Jay Cooke's gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescused George Armstrong Custer from obscurity, created Yellowstone Park, set off a wave of Northern European immigration, pushed frontier settlement 400 miles westward, halted western Canada's drift into the U.S. orbit, triggered the Panic of 1873, and spurred J.P. Morgan's rise." "Lubetkin's narrative describes events played out from Wall Street to the Yellowstone and portrays the soldiers, engineers, businessmen, politicians, and Native Americans who tried to build or block the Northern Pacific."--BOOK JACKET
History
1 online resource (xviii, 380 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780806182056, 0806182059
171287606
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. "God's Chosen Instrument"; Chapter 2. "The Northern Pacific Must Be Built"; Chapter 3. "Free from Fatigue"; Chapter 4. "The Buffalo Will Dwindle Away"; Chapter 5. "Knee Deep in Mud"; Chapter 6. "No System Observed"; Chapter 7. "Stop Firing at Me"; Chapter 8. "The Army of the Glendive"; Chapter 9. "The Fear of Red Skins"; Chapter 10. The "Battle of Poker Flat"; Chapter 11. "Falstaff's Ragamuffins"; Chapter 12. "20,000 Hostile Indians
Chapter 13. "Looks Like War!" Chapter 14. "Under the Whiskey Curse"Chapter 15. "All Down There Are Killed!"; Chapter 16. "Strike Up Garry Owen"; Chapter 17. "We Do Not Anticipate Any Trouble"; Chapter 18. "Get Out, Gentlemen, Get Out"; Postscript: "Ho Hechetu!" (It Is Well!); Appendix: Lt. Edward J. McClernand's Account of the Rescue of the 1871 Western Yellowstone Survey; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; Illustrations
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